Psychometrics

The transition from high school to postsecondary education can be a stressful time for students. Many try their best at maintaining all their responsibilities as a student including their social, professional and academic lives. Students attending universities often report being overwhelmed or overly stressed, ranging from moderate to severe stress that can be difficult to deal with (Sax, 1997). In past studies, researchers believed that both men and women have differences in the way they deal…

It is true that mathematics subject is totally different from other general subjects .In all over the world subject mathematics perceived as a core in educational systems..it will be better to say that mathematics is a science and used in daily life . Mathematical achievements can be monitored by teachers learning process and by science and education department .The aim of mathematics subject to develop a constructive approach and student must have the ability to construct their own internal…

The problem this study is addressing is that in the physics classroom of a suburban high school, the teacher has access to enough laptop computers for every student to be able to use one, but does not use them because he does not know how to incorporate them into instruction or if they will be helpful in increasing learning. The purpose of this study is to find out if incorporating the laptops in a one to one computer based instruction will increase student achievement and motivation. The…

In addition, people continue to argue that the ACT prepares students for college. For example, many feel as if when students prepare to take the ACT, they also learn effective test taking skills that will benefit them in college. For example, the ACT is a timed test and many people think this is a positive thing. People believe that giving the test a time limit teaches students how to react on their feet, and how to make decisions when there is not much time offered. Giving that the students are…

Final Assessment Performance and Test Assessment. Assignment Instructions provided in class. Purpose: You are a teacher who has planned an exciting unit for her students with well-structured learning objectives that are linked to standards. What will be the performance assessment you will include as a culminating assignment? Grade: 1st grade. Social Studies Topic of Unit: Goods and Services. Making the right choice. Goods and services is very important unit for students that will help them…

There I was in the kitchen opening up the scores to my ACT. I have been waiting months to see what I got. I thought to myself, all this studying finally paid off. I remember right after we completed the test how well I thought I did, that even though this was my first time taking it, I was going to get a score no less than a thirty. My mother was in the living room reading a magazine, I was in the kitchen about to open the letter. I opened the letter and saw my score. It was a twenty… I…

Wambaugh, Martinez, McNeil, and Rogers (1999) conducted a study to replicate and expand upon the findings of the study by Wambaugh et al. (1998). They investigated response generalization and maintenance effects of SPT for trained and untrained words. Additionally, the authors attempted to determine whether SPT could result in the overgeneralization of targeted sounds to the production of untrained or previously trained phonemes (e.g., if training the production of /k/ would result in the…

Fate in the Hands of a Scantron According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of a standardized test is; a test (as of intelligence, achievement, or personality) whose reliability has been established by obtaining an average score of a significantly large number of individuals for use as a standard of comparison. Right in the definition it says that they are used to compare large numbers of students. These tests discourage teachers from being creative, they know that…

The Not-Open-Ended Solution to Testing Bob takes a standardized test in a room with 30 other students. Everyone is silent, bubbling in answers for 3 hours straight. Bob is sitting at his own desk with a Scantron answer sheet and test booklet. He has prepared for this test an hour a day for the last few months. A month later, results come back and Bob finds out he failed. He becomes very stressed and begins to hate school because of testing. He skips school the next day. This could be the story…

MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is a helpful assessment that helps people to understand more about themselves, behaviors, characteristics, and other people even though it doesn’t explain everything and have no right or wrong answer. However, by taking it, you learn more about yourself by answering the question that most explain your personality or characteristic. My reported type from MBTI assessment is ESFJ. I got E (extraversion) as my result. I agree with the result because I tend to…